North Korean Embassy Attack Suspects Fled To U.S., Spanish Court Says
A Spanish judge said the alleged attackers offered stolen hard drives and other materials to the FBI.
by Geoff Brumfiel
Mar 26, 2019
3 minutes
Updated at 7:45 p.m. ET
A Spanish court says assailants who broke into North Korea's Embassy in Madrid last month later fled to the U.S.
According to new documents unsealed on Tuesday, the perpetrators of the attack included a U.S. citizen and another resident. The leader of the plot fled via Lisbon to Newark, N.J., and offered stolen material to the FBI in New York.
"We have no comment," Martin Feely, a spokesman for the FBI's New York field office, told NPR in an email.
Spain's Embassy in Washington, D.C.,
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